Co-Location Center Iberia is in charge of managing KIC InnoEnergy activities in Spain and Portugal, as well as the thematic field Renewable Energy at a global level. Activities comprise innovation, business creation and education initiatives in the field of sustainable energy.

KIC InnoEnergy Iberia has corporate offices in Barcelona and Lisbon, as well as some premises devoted to incubating new companies in Sant-Cugat del Vallés (Barcelona area). Performed activities and provided services are, to a great extent, based on the assets and expertise of our partners, all of them leading Iberian industrial, research or academic organisations in the fields of Sustainable Energy and Innovation.
For information on different topics, please contact:

• Education activities: education.iberia@no-spam.kic-innoenergy.com
• Support for Business Creation: innovation.iberia@no-spam.kic-innoenergy.com
• General issues: info.iberia@no-spam.kic-innoenergy.com

Co-Location Center Iberia manages six different innovation projects related to Renewable Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency. The projects address some of the major challenges of these technologies and aim to produce a relevant impact on the market, by delivering innovative solutions (new products, services or processes). Some of the challenges addressed by these projects are: reduction of the cost of energy, reduction of the environmental impact, increase of operational security or increase energy storage capacity.
Current projects in the portfolio are:

EnThiPV – Encapsulation Technologies for Thin-Film Solar

Target: Improve lifetime of thin film solar photovoltaic cells (organic and CIGS) using affordable encapsulation techniques based on flexible, gas barrier and photostable films. Develop advanced high barrier measurement instrument with high reliability and automated measurement system for industrial use.
Main market oriented outputs:

• New encapsulation system for OPV and CIGS thin film solar cells
• Instrument for measuring barrier in industrial processes

Partners: CEA, IREC, UPC, KIT, ESADE, VINCI, AMCOR, DISASOLAR

Summary

OTS – Offshore Test Station

Target: Cross fertilize offshore renewable energy through prototype tests in real ocean conditions, delivering:

• Innovative components and systems
• New instrumentation, monitoring, simulation and control tools
• Recommendations and best practices
• Training

Main market oriented outputs:

• New turbine for wave energy conversion
• Low cost wave monitoring buoy
• Monitoring tool for maintenance planning
• Consultancy services

Project Consortium: IST, EDP, IREC, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Uppsala University, UPC, ESADE, Wavec

OFFWINDTECH – Offshore Wind Enabling Technology

Target: Develop miscellaneous technology (grid connection, park engineering, blades and airfoils, turbine dynamics simulation tools, etc.) for enabling deep water offshore wind energy at competitive costs.
Main market- oriented outputs:

• Tools for offshore grid configuration
• Monitoring tool for maintenance planning
• High performance airfoils for large floating wind turbines
• New simulation modules for floating wind turbines

Partners: IREC, UPC, Gas Natural Fenosa, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, KTH, KU Leuven, TU Eindhoven, Uni Stuttgart, IST, ESADE

NEPTUNE - Offshore Metocean Data Measuring Equipment and Wind, Wave and Current Analysis and Forecasting Software 

Target: Develop equipment and software to reduce costs and risks for offshore wind farm site analysis,  energy resource and operational condition short term forecasting
Main market- oriented outputs:

• LIDAR buoy prototype for wind, wave and current measurements. Serial production foreseen after project

• Site condition for complex Mediterranean Sea test site “Zèfir”

• User friendly and validated software for wind energy resource analysis and 1-5 day forecasting. Service business foreseen after project

Partners: IREC, UPC, CIEMAT, Uni Stuttgart, GasNatural Fenosa, SgurrEnergy, SIMO

TESCONSOL – Thermal Storage for Solar Concentrating Plants

Target: Development of cost effective thermal energy storage systems for CSP with investment costs lower than 25€/kWh.
Main market-oriented outputs:

• New tools for designing TES systems for both latent and sensible
• New materials for sensible and latent storage
• New materials for TES containers
• Plant control solutions for TES systems

Partners: UPC, CIEMAT, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Gas Natural, KTH, ESADE, TOTAL

LH03-IEE – Lighthouse Innodriver: Processes and Living Lab for Industrial Energy Efficiency

Target: Improve energy efficiency in industrial parks with SMEs:

• Development of new tools and systems
• Integration of renewables in industrial environments eliminating intermediate enery carriers (especially for thermal processes).
• Deployment of 2 living labs

Main market oriented outputs:

• New tools for solar thermal audits
• Intelligent Energy Management System
• New solar thermal collectors (3 types)
• New ESCO model for industrial parks

Partners: Gas Natural, UPC, IREC, KTH, SUT, Energyexperts, TSC, Tecnalia Research and Innovation
New projects will be launched in the beginning of 2012.

Summary

Formal partners

• ESADE
• Gas Natural Fenosa
• Institut de Recerca de l’Energia de Catalunya - IREC
• Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Associate partners

• Ciemat
• Energías de Portugal
• Iberdrola
• Tecnalia Research and Innovation

CC Iberia partners together with KIC InnoEnergy SE have established the limited liability company KIC InnoEnergy Iberia S.L. This company is a subsidiary of KIC InnoEnergy S.E. for Spain and Portugal.

• CEO: Mikel Lasa
• Business Creation Director: Josep-Miquel Torregrosa
• Education Director: Josep Bordonau
• Industry Director: Javier Alonso
• Thematic Leader: Antoni Martínez
• Portugal Office Manager: Andreia Fernandes